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"If I'm going to be honest, grad school more out my love of intellectualizing. Swaths of academics dissect events like Hurricane Helene with every scalpel in their frameworks, searching for sweetmeats. I need something different now. Maybe you do too.Because right now I think I need tools, not a superiority complex. Because we deserve to know how to bear a grief that could drown us.Because the mountains raised me, and they’re different now.”Appalachia Climate crisis Grief Hopeful
Illustration by Jess Lewis
The Only Way Out is Through Vol 1: Utopia Through Grief
Essay + Workbook, published September 2025
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"All it takes is a moment. One moment where a body reaches out to another and meets. They reach and reach, and finally pull to one another, and—bam.
Shay followed the pull and slipped between the morning and the evening, in a space where time holds its breath and all possibilities collide.
Stepped right out of another time, quick as a gasp."Animist Time travel Lyrical Dreamy
Illustration by Maria Medem
The Time Walkers
Kaleidotrope Magazine, Winter 2024
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